[ SECRET POST #2518 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2518 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 060 secrets from Secret Submission Post #360.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

This, so hard.

I've made that transition from fanfic to original fic. And guess what? It STILL takes ten years to become an overnight sensation, and getting published by people who will pay you cashy money for your words is hard. I've been bashing my head against the Big Eight (F&SF, Analog, Asimov's, IGMS, Strange Horizons, Clarkesworld, Lightspeed, and Daily SF) for seven years now, across dozens of stories. I'm getting a better class of rejection these days, but they're still rejections. My semi-pro sales picked up this year, but the places I'm selling to now didn't even exist when I started all this.

It's even harder for novelists. Brandon Sanderson was writing his thirteenth doorstop fantasy when his sixth got picked up. Getting a novel to the point where it's good enough to submit to an agent is work that takes a good year if you're lucky. And maybe, o secret-maker, people would rather write for fun, which they are perfectly within their rights to do.

[(Anonymous)]

And Brandon teaches creative writing at a university, which implies it's something he knows how to do well. Clearly it's not that easy to get published.

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That and that writing isn't his only income, even if he's good.